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and pope benedict, this surprise resignatio resignation. you have to wonder what might be behind it, whether it's health issues or something else. mike barnicle joins us now with his thoughts. mike? >> a stunner. that's for sure. the church has obviously been in great controversy over the last several years, as joe just indicated. the abuse scandal that began here in the united states has spread throughout the world. this particular pope came into the papacy as pretty much the departed pope's successor, indicated he was very conservative, from germany. he was in charge of priests who had, you know, been charged with molesting kids throughout the world, not only in the united states. i don't know whether it's his health. nobody knows much more than we've just reported on this story right now. it's a stunning, stunning development. >> there had been reports earlier that he seemed exhausted, that he seemed out of touch and disconnected. but we'll be following this story throughout the morning, mika. big news, again, coming out of the vatican.
and pope benedict, this surprise resignatio resignation. you have to wonder what might be behind it, whether it's health issues or something else. mike barnicle joins us now with his thoughts. mike? >> a stunner. that's for sure. the church has obviously been in great controversy over the last several years, as joe just indicated. the abuse scandal that began here in the united states has spread throughout the world. this particular pope came into the papacy as pretty much the departed...
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it was benedict's second-to-last public appearance as pope. he will make his final address on wednesday before stepping down from the papacy thursday evening. the first pope to do so in 600 years. but even in his final days as pope, benedict cannot escape the controversies that have consumed much of his tenure. this morning cardinal keith o'brien, the head of the church in scotland, has announced he will be stepping down amid accusations of inappropriate and intimate behavior with current and former priests. chris matthews, a little bit of reaction from you. >> it's bad. >> it keeps going, huh? >> i grew up in the catholic church. >> me, too. >> we didn't see any of this. we thought priests had given up on sex as part of the holy orders and gave up on money and sacrificed their lives. those were the priests we knew, we thought. now we see nothing but headlines of people who had no intention of doing that. they couldn't have. >> cover-up. >> and the cover-up and the attempt to make the church look good, and it has made it look terrible. >> chri
it was benedict's second-to-last public appearance as pope. he will make his final address on wednesday before stepping down from the papacy thursday evening. the first pope to do so in 600 years. but even in his final days as pope, benedict cannot escape the controversies that have consumed much of his tenure. this morning cardinal keith o'brien, the head of the church in scotland, has announced he will be stepping down amid accusations of inappropriate and intimate behavior with current and...
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he was the runner-up when pope benedict was chosen and reports from inside that conclave said actually don't choose me. don't choose me as the next pope. he left and went back to alternat argentina. one cardinal went back to buenos aires and said outside the system. maybe he can come in cooking his own meals and living in otherwise own apartment and not using a chauffeur because he pref preferred to take the bus. maybe because of that and the pomp and circumstance we have seen over the last couple of weeks and maybe it takes somebody from the outside to say, this is an organization that needs to have the windows opened on that secrecy and needs reform and needs change. >> let's hope. coming up on "morning joe," microsoft bill gates will be with us and former congressman barney frank will be here and "hardball's" chris matthews. up next, president obama meets face-to-face for the house republicans since 2011 first. first, a check on the forecast. >> a nice tease. the spring weather with us the last three or four days on the eastern seaboard is gone this morning. grab the winter clothes.
he was the runner-up when pope benedict was chosen and reports from inside that conclave said actually don't choose me. don't choose me as the next pope. he left and went back to alternat argentina. one cardinal went back to buenos aires and said outside the system. maybe he can come in cooking his own meals and living in otherwise own apartment and not using a chauffeur because he pref preferred to take the bus. maybe because of that and the pomp and circumstance we have seen over the last...
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. >> this is complete difference in tone from what we heard from pope benedict and will be welcomed by a lot of catholics. if i can ask john mecham a question. how long will this take to filter down through the clergy? the clergy is so conservative having been shaped benedict and his predecessor to essentially talk about this stuff and to be doctriner about this stuff. will they get the message? >> it's a wonderful question. the question now is has the pope made the more, to use american political terms the more center left and liberal kind of interpretations of the faith. suddenly is it acceptable to talk in those terms in a way that makes you part of the mainstream as opposed to part of the quite, quite small minority? this is a return and emphasis stois the radicalism of the gospel which is that you love one another as you love yourself and if you read the interview closely you see that the poem is making a deeply primitive christian case for the radicalism of love as the primary reaction to the human condition. as opposed to a more dogmatic interpretation and set of laws about the
. >> this is complete difference in tone from what we heard from pope benedict and will be welcomed by a lot of catholics. if i can ask john mecham a question. how long will this take to filter down through the clergy? the clergy is so conservative having been shaped benedict and his predecessor to essentially talk about this stuff and to be doctriner about this stuff. will they get the message? >> it's a wonderful question. the question now is has the pope made the more, to use...
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. ♪ >> pope benedict is stepping down, and the roman catholic church needs a new spiritual leader. could it be you? announcing mountain dew's pope n win contest. check specially marked mountain dew bottles. >> hey, mom, i won! >> plus other great prizes like a pool table and movie tickets. visit mountaindew.com for complete rules. >> good morning, it's thursday, february 21st. welcome to "morning joe." >> it's a big day. >> it is a big day. a live look at times square. inside the studio here, we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle. >> yes? >> are you completely buttoned? okay. whatever. >> have you buttoned everything up? >> i think so. >> it didn't look like it for a second there. msnbc political analyst and visiting professor at nyu and former democratic congressman, harold ford jr. >> we love harold. >> and he's all buttoned up. >> it's the day. >> i know, i'm getting there. i'm getting there. it's the buildup. we also have with us democratic political strategist -- >> oh! >> -- james carville. >> look at this! >> what is this? >> more than that. >> strategist. >> he's the co-a
. ♪ >> pope benedict is stepping down, and the roman catholic church needs a new spiritual leader. could it be you? announcing mountain dew's pope n win contest. check specially marked mountain dew bottles. >> hey, mom, i won! >> plus other great prizes like a pool table and movie tickets. visit mountaindew.com for complete rules. >> good morning, it's thursday, february 21st. welcome to "morning joe." >> it's a big day. >> it is a big day. a live...
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and here we are actually these years later -- >> we are looking at power, i think pope benedict xvi found out how difficult it is to wield power with a curio that was intransigent and he didn't want it to change but a church that was shifting and change underneath him and becoming more and more a global church. now we have pope francis who will try to run this like a ceo, you know, he's going to try to have a new kind of power base that will shift its axis to the south and look at that. he's got huge challenges ahead of him. this is a church wracked by scandal and corruption. >> secrecy. >> secrecy. >> you know, where does the global church head is a big question of power i think this week with papal transition. but in the broader sense of power shifts, i mean, i think the arab spring is a dramatic example of that, you know, we -- i just came back from egypt where the revolution is in disarray. it's crumbling. it's failing. they're not doing the hard work of democracy, the hard work to be on the street and make those changes that they fought for in those 18 days in tahir square, we're not
and here we are actually these years later -- >> we are looking at power, i think pope benedict xvi found out how difficult it is to wield power with a curio that was intransigent and he didn't want it to change but a church that was shifting and change underneath him and becoming more and more a global church. now we have pope francis who will try to run this like a ceo, you know, he's going to try to have a new kind of power base that will shift its axis to the south and look at that....
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for his predecessor and neighbor at vatican, pope benedict, frances likened him to a wise grandfather. he doesn't live in the papal apartments because they're too big. he cannot live alone for psychological reasons. frances likes to have people around him. that's why he likes having less security around him so he can meet people. he knows there could be a crazy person in the crowd, but says there's also the lord. asked what's in his black briefcase -- the pope joked it's not the keys to the atomic bomb. just a razor and some books. the pope, with a common touch, showing compassion with actions and words. >> i'm so excited about this pope. that was nbc's anne thompson reporting, joe. >> yeah. you know, the fact is, that so many people saw this as a remarkable statement yesterday. it's remarkable in and of itself. you know, jesus on the sermon of the mount, pair phrasing jesus, who said, judge not, less he be judged, and standard by which you judge others you'll be judged and jesus goes on and says, why are you looking at the spec in another person's eyes when you a plank in your own. t
for his predecessor and neighbor at vatican, pope benedict, frances likened him to a wise grandfather. he doesn't live in the papal apartments because they're too big. he cannot live alone for psychological reasons. frances likes to have people around him. that's why he likes having less security around him so he can meet people. he knows there could be a crazy person in the crowd, but says there's also the lord. asked what's in his black briefcase -- the pope joked it's not the keys to the...
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i think many people who are admirers of benedict and were admirers of john paul ii accept the view that the church should have moved more aggressively. you cannot simply, as the church has done in recent decades, move priests from diocese to diocese in the hopes that somehow or another the problem will go away. i think that the new pope would be very wise, particularly in the west, to speak out and argue that this is entirely a new day and that the church will become more christlike. >> you know, mika, i don't really know -- nobody knows why the pope is stepping down. we can take him at his word. unfortunately, taking the catholic church at its word over the past decade or so on a variety of scandals has not been what journalists should have done. i think some questions have to be asked here. he stepped down, the first pope to step down in centuries. and again, i love the church. i have a lot of connections to the church. and i just -- this is less about the church than it is about reporters and journalists who are covering this story. i think far too many people are just saying oh, he'
i think many people who are admirers of benedict and were admirers of john paul ii accept the view that the church should have moved more aggressively. you cannot simply, as the church has done in recent decades, move priests from diocese to diocese in the hopes that somehow or another the problem will go away. i think that the new pope would be very wise, particularly in the west, to speak out and argue that this is entirely a new day and that the church will become more christlike. >>...
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. >> probably would have made the list if it was just pope benedict resigning. then to have the new pope with a new tone and new way of talking, it's fascinated people. catholics and noncatholics. so i think that's part of why it is such a huge story. >> i think it's an example also how one person, one person can often a leader be the cause for transformation and for massive, massive change. >> he broke the mold completely. he shattered it. >> no question we talked about edward snowden being "times" person of the year, but internationally, this guy is person of the year. >> you think about the previous pope and it will be like a historical blip. this pope seems to have made more change tohan the previous pope did this his entire tenure. >> benedict will always be remembered as the pope between john paul ii who played a role in the freeing of 100 million people behind the iron occur tip and this pope who is thirt ally shaking things up in a way. and i don't think we've seent biggest shocks. we've seen how he projects to the rest of the world. it seems like inside
. >> probably would have made the list if it was just pope benedict resigning. then to have the new pope with a new tone and new way of talking, it's fascinated people. catholics and noncatholics. so i think that's part of why it is such a huge story. >> i think it's an example also how one person, one person can often a leader be the cause for transformation and for massive, massive change. >> he broke the mold completely. he shattered it. >> no question we talked about...
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victims accuse benedict of not doing enough to stop the abuse. >> i mean, god, how would you like to be the guy over 2,000 years that's like smothered between john paul, ii, and this guy frances. >> that's true. >> seriously, you are not ringo between paul and george. are you the back-up singer and hermann her mites. >> i'm sure that's how he thinks of himself. >> all right. the "wall street journal". >> j.p. morgan is offering to pay about $3 billion to end civil and criminal investigations into his mortgage lending practice. how long are these j.p. morgan stories going to go? >> they had settlements that keep going on and on. give them a number. let them pay a check and be done with it. they were saying it was too low compared to the number of cases involved. j.p. morgan is accuse, the quality of the gun. don't you get like these breaking news alerts every day, j.p. morgan agrees to settle? this j.p. morgan story, i can start getting red sox the national scores again, it just keeps coming. >> the washington post, home practice along the rise. analysts fear it may be a sign the mark
victims accuse benedict of not doing enough to stop the abuse. >> i mean, god, how would you like to be the guy over 2,000 years that's like smothered between john paul, ii, and this guy frances. >> that's true. >> seriously, you are not ringo between paul and george. are you the back-up singer and hermann her mites. >> i'm sure that's how he thinks of himself. >> all right. the "wall street journal". >> j.p. morgan is offering to pay about $3...
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we have to be careful not to kind of denigrate john paul or benedict who brought people back in their own way. he's bringing a different group of people back. people are telling me, i'm going back to the church because of francis. they see the possibility of change, of someone who speaks to them, in a way that john paul and benedict didn't speak to them. not because they were bad popes, just because they're different people. he's bringing a new group of people into the church. >> you talk about jesus shaking things up. i've just got to say this because through the week there have been people who have been pushing back on what the pope said. who am i to judge? they will go to leviticus or find something that paul said. instead of going to, you know, the red letters, the actual words the gospel. it was not just jesus' words, it was jesus' life. he hung out with tax collectors who were the most despised, the most hated. the woman at the well. all the religious leaders were about to stone. and jesus just sat there. they said, what should we do? he just sat there and stared. he said, i'll
we have to be careful not to kind of denigrate john paul or benedict who brought people back in their own way. he's bringing a different group of people back. people are telling me, i'm going back to the church because of francis. they see the possibility of change, of someone who speaks to them, in a way that john paul and benedict didn't speak to them. not because they were bad popes, just because they're different people. he's bringing a new group of people into the church. >> you talk...
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our german coach, this was his benedict arnold moment. they went surprise, surprise in the 13th minute. they had a piece of poetry and the test and the moment of -- who said germans are not funny? >> certainly not me. the striker that you said had the first touch of a german shepherd. >> second touch. >> chasing a peach ball. >> they had to compensate by hitting everything the first time. clint dempsey went in and lashing in from close range. look at this. this is an american man. >> dempsey 15? >> absolutely. 4-1. a stroll in the park. >> did anyone feel any of the great players play? >> no. >> any german player that played for them. >> this was a very good german. this was none of that starter. >> a german bee side is better than most. >> they are a phenomenal football team. a very interesting game for him to choose ahead of three crucial qualifiers who are now coming up. >> i thought it was nice. it was our 100th anniversary. >> it was great. >> they allowed us to lay with our hands. i think that helps. the third goal you department se
our german coach, this was his benedict arnold moment. they went surprise, surprise in the 13th minute. they had a piece of poetry and the test and the moment of -- who said germans are not funny? >> certainly not me. the striker that you said had the first touch of a german shepherd. >> second touch. >> chasing a peach ball. >> they had to compensate by hitting everything the first time. clint dempsey went in and lashing in from close range. look at this. this is an...
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these benedict arnolds, fine, they made their call. i don't call that killing americans. i think that's fighting the enemy, and the enemy now includes some former americans. now, that's part of the world. i do think, however, the democratic party, now that we're getting partisan here, i think the democratic party has been weakened ever since mcgovern, a sense it wasn't willing to be the daddy party, to use the old term, as well as the mommy party. they're not willing to do the whole job of the presidency. i think this president has not engaged in the waterboarding. he hasn't taken us into countries we shouldn't be at war with like iraq. he hasn't been a dick cheney. that's why democrats have responded differently. i don't think they're the same. i don't think dick cheney and barack obama are the same person. i think barack obama has educated himself since becoming president to the technology we have and understands its value in fighting terrorism. i do think, every time we're going to get hit in the future -- and we will get hit -- there will be questions asked, did we us
these benedict arnolds, fine, they made their call. i don't call that killing americans. i think that's fighting the enemy, and the enemy now includes some former americans. now, that's part of the world. i do think, however, the democratic party, now that we're getting partisan here, i think the democratic party has been weakened ever since mcgovern, a sense it wasn't willing to be the daddy party, to use the old term, as well as the mommy party. they're not willing to do the whole job of the...
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>> eggs benedict. >> i'm glad this came up! >> in any event, one of the elements involved in the identification and the capture of the two they were in the database. they had massachusetts driver's licenses so they had a name and a face and an address! so senator coats, realize what is going on out there! >> coming up on "morning joe" -- >> screaming at the ambassador and you're screaming at the ambassador. >> calling him names. >>> i have to take a look at this videotape and show it later. i'd like to see this. very interesting. >>> coming up on "morning joe," commissioner of the new york city police department ray kelly will be here on set. we will get the laitest on the boston marathon situation with nbc investigator reporter pete williams. i don't think he takes a day off. and boston police commissioner ed davis and peter gammons will also join us. bill has our forecast now. >> all eyes on the midwest over the weekend. the heavy rains from last week caused epic flooding and in some cases even record flooding. six states dea
>> eggs benedict. >> i'm glad this came up! >> in any event, one of the elements involved in the identification and the capture of the two they were in the database. they had massachusetts driver's licenses so they had a name and a face and an address! so senator coats, realize what is going on out there! >> coming up on "morning joe" -- >> screaming at the ambassador and you're screaming at the ambassador. >> calling him names. >>> i have...
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twitter feed, i see conservatives hacking you to little bits, calling you a traitor and calling you a benedict arnold, saying you're a rhino and you're finished. yet all of these losers support losing candidates you got 67% approval rating. what do you say to your far, far, far, far right wing critics that think it's wrong for you to work with a democrat? >> i say the same thing to all of my critics no matter where they are in the spectrum. that is, i have a job to do. the fact is nothing ever crossed my mind in the days after. you wake up on tuesday, october 30th, 7 million of your 8.8 million citizens out of power and not a school opened and not a water treatment or waste water treatment plant is operational and 51 gas stations in the whole state are open. you're not sitting there worried about presidential politics, joe. >> yeah. >> you've got people suffering and you say i got to do my job. i say the same thing to all of them. put yourself in my shoes and if you're a responsible elected official you would to do nothing different. i supported mitt romney and very vocal about it the fact is
twitter feed, i see conservatives hacking you to little bits, calling you a traitor and calling you a benedict arnold, saying you're a rhino and you're finished. yet all of these losers support losing candidates you got 67% approval rating. what do you say to your far, far, far, far right wing critics that think it's wrong for you to work with a democrat? >> i say the same thing to all of my critics no matter where they are in the spectrum. that is, i have a job to do. the fact is nothing...